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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

If the current state of bakery (il)literacy has you down, then consider this: Right now thousands and thousands of new graduates are flooding the workforce, bringing with them all the knowledge, skill, and personal communications excellence that the American educational system has to offer.

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Missy F., once you realize this is a CCC[haaaauuu-patooey!], and that it's depicting an apple being devoured by maggots, suddenly the "daz" thing seems that much more tragic.

I'm sensing some confusion, Stephanie G., and it's coming from this direction:

Ah, I see someone took my "When in doubt, scream it" advice to heart! And I like how s/he covered all the bases with that comma/exclamation mark combo.

Libby B. assures me there's a misspelling in here somewhere...

...but looking at that writing makes my eyes feel like they're careening out of control on an oil slick. Ow.

Mercedes W., I was with you until "proud":

We've already seen congratulations/graduation spelling mix-ups, but here Shelby found a mix-up of the actual words:

As you can see, the "n" is so embarrassed he's making a break for it.

Jess S., don't you just hate letters that look the same upside down as right side up? Like H, I, & O?

If only there were some way to know which way was up when you put them all together! Curse you, you vile deceivers of the alphabet! Curse... you!

Well Job Done Jen! I still love this site! I love how the second cake says that- Well Job Done! Do people read what they write? Anyway, I love the tick thing- I probably would have seen that cake and been like, oh, that looks nice... althought, I suppose that person knew the logo. Love the commentary- Gradulations!

Ummm - can someone tell me why there appear to be marijuana leaves on the OIHO cake? Was that intentional? Perhaps they wanted to order a cake celebrating the fact that despite all the pot Jess smoked, she graduated!

Actually, I'm pretty sure the only problem with the second cake is the punctuation. Take out the first exclamation mark and add a comma after "Well," and you have a cake that aptly describes the condition of a student with a new Ph.D. (as I assume the recipient of this cake to be).

These are hilarious! And the commentary is, as usual, what really makes the site fun. Love the pot leaves on the OHIO cake. Must be for college... The craze over texting and casual emails where one isn't expected to even consider grammar is making things worse.

I kept trying to read the O H I O cake upside down, you know to go with the rest of the print and all I kept coming up with was Oi! Ho!, as in two separate words because of the odd spacing between the I and the H.

I don't know about the rest of you, but if I were Libby I might be a little "tick"ed that I only got one congratulation. I mean most other people get congratulations. If I'm going to have to eat my swirly chocolate words off of an oil slick I darn sure want multiple kudos. Just sayin'..

Marijuana leaves on cakes.....unreal. Although I had to snort at OIHO because it reminds me of my dad asking where the onion dip had gone in the fridge but couldn't figure out what the container marked "noino" was.

I am delighted with the educational possibilities of this blog. My spelling is improving (which is a GOOD Thing), my punctuation skills are being sharpened, and, after a long and obviously boring life I have learned what marijuana leaves look like. (Now I have to go out and inspect the weeds at the back of my lot line.)Cake Wrecks, you are shining light.

My boyfriend walked up as I was on the "Well Job Done,!" cake. He thinks it is for some one who digs wells for a living. When I told him these were graduation cakes, he said the person must be graduation from well-digging school then.

Oh, and just to stick up for the cake decorator a little bit OH and IO are supposed to be separated as if they were two separate words. It's one of the big cheers they do in the stadium. Half of the stadium yells, "O! H!" and the other responds, "I! O!"

What is up with the marijuana on the "OHIO" cake? Maybe they smoked a bit too much and that's why they got it wrong.It's amazing how people that spell Kindergarden can actually graduate from kindergarten.

The spacing in the ohio cake is intentional, fyi. Its a common cheer in the buckeye state. One person yells O-H and everyone else yells I-O in return. And they are buckeye leaves. The cake is still a wreak, but not as bad as everyone things it is.

1. They meant to say days, but thought they could save time by spelling it differently

2. It was written on a European keyboard. I am from Germany, you see, and we have QWERTZ keyboards, not QWERTY ones. Y and Z are switched. So MAYBE the cake design was submitted in an online form, and the person who ordered it simply didn't double check.

(Happens to me all the time when I use my American husband's computer. I'll say "I love zou babz" for instance.)

I'm sure Jen did indeed notice the misspellings on the "Kindergarden" cake, which is why she said "I was with you until 'proud'". Otherwise, the only thing making it a wreck would be the fact that some poor child somewhere is graduating from, what, daycare? Insane. Maybe now instead of celebrating birth, we can celebrate graduating from the womb! With cake! The images I'm conjuring up are making me laugh - must go now.

I once made a cake that said "Happy Bithday!" My kids LOVED it...it brought much merriment to us, . Also, when I tried to make layer cakes, I had quite a time mastering the art of leveling the bottom layer. When the cakes cracked, I just called them "California cakes" in honor of the San Andreas fault. Unfortunately, photos of said cakes have not survived.

I think the 'Well Job Done' cake is for the year end faculty party of an elementary school. The comma that’s down by the exclamation point is supposed to be up by ‘well.’ As in, "Well, job done! It wasn't a great year but it's done. And those little buggers we’re supposed to teach didn’t kill us Dr. Huskins!”

Okay, this settles it. I'm going tomorrow to order a joint birthday cake for spouse and his best friend (birthdays two days apart), and by God, I'm drawing a picture of what I want it to look like and say ... and reiterating what I want to say in 24-point type at the bottom of the page.

And if they still mess it up, then they can just go be cheerleaders for the Ticks. Go, team, go!!

To everyone who keeps saying they look like pot leaves on the Ohio cake... I know they look like pot leaves, but really they are Buckeye leaves, which look a lot like pot leaves (but bigger - look up Buckeye tree). It's an Ohio State University cake - the colors of the school are scarlet and gray, and the mascot is the Buckeyes. And the OH and IO are supposed to be separated, as other people have mentioned - it's a cheer on campus. One person shouts "OH!" and the other shouts "IO!" in response.

GUYS. Cake Wreck commenters are not the first people in the world to notice the buckeye/pot leaf connection. As an Ohio State graduate, let's set the record straight: buckeyes have five leaves, pot has seven. Hardy har har, they look alike, get over it. The decorator really didn't mess them up THAT bad- they look very similar anyway. And THANK YOU to whoever cleared up that the spacing between OH and IO is intentional- yes it's backwards and that's just silly, but I agree, the cake isn't as much of a wreck as you guys seem to think it is.

which makes me wonder- aside from the pretty obviously hilarious wrecks on here, there must be more than just this Ohio cake that we're just misunderstanding and aren't really that bad.

final note: why does the Ohio cake even count here? It looks homemade.

After my husband died, my then 5 year old son had to go back to kindergarden for the 1st time in a month. He requested that he bring a cake for the class. He wanted it to say "My Daddy Passed Away". Though it was a strange request for an adult, for a child, it kind of made sense. When we got to the school with the cake, I opened the box. The decorator had written "My Daddy Past Away". Oh my!

My teachers often brag that they can read anyone's handwriting. Considering they grade 8th grade papers, they have reason to say this. However, I am willing to bet that not even they could read the cake sent in by Libby. I'll have to ask them.-Madison

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